Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin defends video of her partying

• Viral video of Finland’s prime minister dancing and drinking at a wild party.
• “Spent the night with friends. Partying, quite wild, yes. I danced and sang,» said the 36-year-old prime minister.
• In December 2019, Sanna Marin became the youngest Prime Minister in Finnish history.

Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said she did not take any drugs during a «wild» party at a private home, adding that she did nothing wrong by letting her hair down and having fun with her friends, The Associated Press reported.

A video that has gone viral on social media shows six people, including the Finnish prime minister, dancing and singing a song to the a camera. Later in the video, Marin, 36, is on her knees on what appears to be the dance floor with her arms behind her head dancing as she hears a song.

Sanna Marin is caught twerking

“I am disappointed that it has been made public. I spent the night with friends. Partying, quite wild, yes. I danced and I sang,” she told Finnish broadcaster YLE on Thursday, August 18, after social media erupted with criticism of the prime minister.

“I have not used drugs or anything other than alcohol. I’ve danced, sung and partied and done perfectly legal things. I have also never been in a situation where I knew others had done it,” Marin said, according to the Hufvudstadsbladet newspaper.

“Partying, pretty wild”

It was unclear where the party, which was reportedly attended by Ilmari Nurminen, a member of the Eduskunta, or Parliament, for the Marin Social Democratic Party, and Finnish singer Alma, was held. To see the video of the party click HERE.

Marin — who in December 2019 became Finland’s youngest-ever prime minister — said she spends her free time with friends just like other people her age and intends to remain the same person as before. Filed Under: Prime Minister of Finland caught partying

Sanna Marin sends a strong message

“I hope it is accepted. We live in a democracy and in elections everyone can decide bases on these issues,” she commented, according to YLE.

Critics have pointed out that Finland, which shares a 832-mile (1,340-kilometer) land border with Russia, faces high electricity prices, among other problems stemming from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Filed Under: Prime Minister of Finland caught partying

It is Marin’s first controversy

Finland recently abandoned its long-standing neutral stance and applied to join NATO. Also, in July, Sanna Marin attended a popular rock Finnish festival.

In December, she publicly apologized after partying until 4 a.m. without her work phone. As a result, she she was not informed that she had been in close contact with a person who had tested positive for Covid-19. She did not test positive herself. Filed Under: Prime Minister of Finland caught partying